After 9/11, there was an almost inflationary attempt within the contemporary art world to evaluate the images of this singular event so aestheticized by the media. Robert Kunec’s work, which deals with the phenomenon of suicide bombing, is convincing and unique. It delivers an impressive image of the inner workings of this phenomenon, and its use of ideology and coercive indoctrination as tools with which to take control of the subject in absolute terms. It asks: »What role does the person behind the uniform play in a religiously motivated conflict?« The image that Kunec has found oscillates between a building kit and a bomb. Both of these are of a mechanical nature and they illustrate the complex idea of subjectiv- ity within intercultural context, with one of its most extreme examples. Man as toy soldier, a subject deprived of its will, or a believer ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for his faith. Kunec investigates the history of this militant system of sacrifice and its use in the »arsenals« of Germany, Japan and Russia during the second World War, in relation to its portrayal in the media today. His work focuses on the use of propaganda by terror »Sponsors«, as well its use in the misleading analyses of their Western combatants. Kunec reminds us to pay attention to the person transformed into the toy soldier, hidden beneath the uniform. The most shattering experience of all of this is undoubtedly the degradation of the universal subject into a mannequin, devoid of free will, trapped in an ever hardening and empty shell, one that is all to easily assembled.